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A record label makes, distributes and markets sound recordings; basically at the end of the day they're out to make money. How has the music industry been affected by the Internet and digital downloading? This question is important because the Internet is the Music Industry's new problem. Music in today's world without the Internet will be the main question or main concern if we did not have it. Where would the music industry be without the Internet and the power to share files, MP3 waves and…

theaters have also closed due to the fact that people are bootlegging the movies and putting them on the internet for different people to watch. People like to take the easy way out when it comes to buying music and or going to the movies. Many record labels have had to shut down just because they have no way to bring in enough money to keep it going. Copyright infringement has left a harmful stain on the music and film industry. The big fact of the matter is that so many people are…

The readings I completed this week really got me thinking about the transformations of music over the years. I have gained a lot more knowledge about the ethics of music and how technology has opened doors for artists and how it has affected the music world for both listeners and the artists themselves. For my response journal this week, I would like to discuss two important areas from the chapters of the book, ‘Capturing Sound’ by Mark Katz that I found really intriguing. One area would be…

Ever since I was little, I would sing and look up music. I would rush home every day after school so that I could practice. My entire life I would strive to become more musically talented. Now that I am older, because of technology, I am interested in Social Media, and how music these days is related to music. Music is my passion. Any chance that I get to learn more about music, I often take. The topic that I have chosen to write about is, how the music industry is affected by the internet and…

Interdependent means two or more things dependent on each other. The recording industry and the radio industry are a great example of being interdependent. The first recording to be sold was of the opera star Enrico Caruso. That started the recording business basically, records began to be sold all around and a competition grew. The competition was the type of records to be sold. The size of records, the hole in the middle, how many times and how fast it spun, and how many songs were on each…

Rights Organizations/Publishers who receive 0.026 cents while the owner of the sound recording (usually the record label) receives 0.12 cents. For the Spotify ‘Subscription’ based model, total revenue associated per stream is 1.0 cents. Spotify then takes a 0.3 cent cut from this amount. The Performing Rights Organization/Publisher receives 0.11 cents of this amount while the Record Label (owner of the sound recording) receives 0.59 cents. As stated on the Royalty Exchange Website, Spotify pays…

Introduction: In today society all music is digital and available in one click of a button. Vinyl’s contain a sound that is outstanding and nothing compared to audio encryption. The music and sounds are physically being formed into records. Each one being different shape, size, roughness, and smoothness. Also its cool looking and the new generation see it as a big cd. The Vinyl Record Club is a place where anyone can meet people who have a different or the same taste in music. The information is…

The company pays back 70% of the money they earn per song back to the rights holders like labels, publishers, and distributers. Although Spotify has paid out over three billion dollars to these rights holders, the money gets divided unfairly among the record company itself and those who actually wrote the music and those who recorded it. Despite…

Introduction The story of K-Mart began in 1897, when a man by the name of Sebastian Spering Kresge had the idea to open up a discount store in the heart of Detroit and form a partnership with a man by the name of John McCrory. This whole idea of offering goods and products to customers at discounted rates changed the ideas of retail in a way that was never seen before. It was two years after this partnership began, that it also ended in which Kresege took over, entitling these Detroit stores…

record companies took advantage of their oligopolist position to exact a high price from the artist”(453). This is no longer the case because artist can now release their own music and reach fans through social networks, becoming independent of a major label. Myspace was the first major service to providing the platform for artist, next was Facebook and now there is Twitter and Instagram. These platforms establish a direct link between artist and their fans, giving them the ability to sell…